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This is what judicial tyranny looks like

Courts telling legislatures that the rules of the legislative body are subject to oversight by county judges, and that county judges know more about those rules than the civil servant whose job it is to inform and advise the legislature on following its own rules.

— Which, it follows, permits county court judges to rule that published laws are not laws unless they are first agreed to by county court judges. Which makes me wonder why we don’t just skip the middle man and go right to a judge and ask him or her to make the laws.

Bottom line: a Dane County Circuit court judge has just told the Wisconsin legislature that they are her bitches, and that the way they go about passing laws is up to her to decide. Separation of powers? A useful fiction that she allows to obtain provided the legislature doesn’t do something she and her son don’t like.

Gavel.

(thanks to newrouter)

29 Replies to “This is what judicial tyranny looks like”

  1. A fine scotch says:

    And nothing says fine judicial reasoning and scholarship quite like having to re-write an order 3 times to be clear…

  2. Joe says:

    This is insanity. I cannot believe the Wisconsin Supreme Court hasn’t responded to this yet.

  3. agile_dog says:

    like having to re-write an order 3 times to be clear…

    It’s sorta like a sternly worded letter from the UN – you need to get several before you actually have to respond to it.

  4. JHoward says:

    Added to using federal agencies to persuade public or private action to some unknown degree, the Barky Era has produced so much legal ambiguity that whether you abide by any particular edict or you do not is indeterminate.

    It’s basically little Barry’s anarchy out there. Own it, Constitutional Scholar.

  5. Pablo says:

    “…it is hereby declared that 2011 Wisconsin Act 10 has not been published…”

    Hey, maybe she can declare Dreams From My Father unpublished and make that whole Ayers thing go away.

  6. Jeff G. says:

    Heh.

  7. geoffb says:

    “Oh, and don’t be dissing me either.” (So) Sumi says.

  8. cranky-d says:

    I hope the governor ignores this ruling like he (apparently) did the last one.

  9. LBascom says:

    Something that really disturbs me is how divided America has become. Or maybe I should say how far apart the two sides are. Used to be Democrats and Republicans shared a commonality that limited debate to the method of achieving a common goal. You could discuss it over a beer at the bar. Now it is purely us against them. There is no common goal.

    Worse, our side is constrained by a sense of honor the other side doesn’t even conceive. We believe in the rule of law, and fidelity to the constitution. They believe in ‘by any means necessary’.

    I am totally uninterested in debating with these people anymore. Fire all their asses and hire the ones back that will work for peanuts. Colleges are pumping out degrees by the boatload into a jobless economy, there would be no problem finding teachers. We have tons of young veterans coming home that can fight crime and fires. Screw these assholes that feel entitled to their jobs and bloated pay.

  10. geoffb says:

    It is neither insanity or stupidity, they know exactly what they are doing. Hang this up past April 5th when they expect to change the Wisconsin Supreme Court balance in their favor. Sumi is just a delaying action.

  11. newrouter says:

    “Sumi is just a delaying action.”

    the new court isn’t seated til august i’ve read

  12. Joe says:

    geoffb, they have to delay to July 31. Even if they win the election, that is when the seats change.

  13. Wm T Sherman says:

    So the delaying battle will move to the state supreme court shortly?

    And based on past performance, the actions of the scabrous progressive bitches there will exceed anything Judge Sumi has done by at least an order of magnitude.

  14. geoffb says:

    I see a long Summer vacation coming to a judge if needed.

  15. Blake says:

    It’s good to be the king judge.

  16. Squid says:

    They can squirm and squeal all they want. They can lie and cheat all they want. They can claim that all power is theirs, and even act accordingly, and it will not change the end result. As Insty mentioned this morning: the Gods of the Copybook Headings are laughing their asses off.

    In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
    By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
    But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
    And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work, you die.”

    Of course, that was the British Empire in 1919. Here and now, it’s totally different.

  17. McGehee says:

    WHEREAS the Legislature of the State of Wisconsin has enacted Wisconsin Act 10 in accordance with the rules of each house, of which each house is the sole judge and authority, and

    WHEREAS Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi, in ruling that Wisconsin Act 10 is not in effect has overstepped her jurisdiction and undertaken an extralegal attempt to place the legislative branch of state government under the authority of the judicial branch,

    THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that we, the members of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate, mindful of our responsibility to the people of Wisconsin to defend the standing of the legislative branch of state government in Wisconsin against being undermined, do respectfully and courteously invite Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi to fuck off.

    That’s the resolution I would introduce if I were a member of the Wisconsin legislature.

  18. Jeff G. says:

    That’d work.

  19. Slartibartfast says:

    They left off the “and die” part.

    Sloppy bible-clingers.

  20. newrouter says:

    having seen sumi’s picture this works:

    “This is what judicial tranny looks like”

  21. McGehee says:

    They left off the “and die” part.

    DEATH THREAT!

  22. Spiny Norman says:

    It appears to me that McGehee’s #17 is the front-runner for the Protein Wisdom Reader Comment of the Week™.

    ;^)

  23. Stephanie says:

    After making a case that government workers are badly treated by Gov. Scott Walker and Republicans’ recent moves to remove most collective bargaining rights, Parrett wrote: “With that, we’d ask that you reconsider taking a sign and stance to support public employees in this community.

    “Failure to do so will leave us no choice but do a public boycott of your business. And sorry, neutral means ‘no’ to those who work for the largest employer in the area and are union members.”

    …The threatened boycott may backfire, based on what merchants heard Wednesday. “We have actually had quite a response the other way today,” Kieslich said.

    Oops.

  24. Mr B says:

    Woman charged with email threats.

    That was posted on a side blog with the most generic heading possible. And again, consider if any roles were altered how this would be reported. However, I am willing to play wait and see.

    A comment at Gatewaypundit:

    retire05 commented:
    Read my typing, NOTHING WILL HAPPEN TO THIS WOMAN. She will never see the seats in a court room. The Dane County DA is a slug himself and he is NOT going to prosecute this nutcase.

    But when he doesn’t, all the Congressmen who received her vile email should sue the DA for failure to do his job and demand he step down. If the Republicans are smart, they will make this a national story and go on every damn TV show they can find to show how Democrats are unwilling to protect them in Wisconsin. And they need to mention Gabby Giffords in every sentence.

    Good idea.

  25. Stephanie says:

    Will the teacher be treated the similarly? Or not?

    I’m betting not.

  26. geoffb says:

    Katherine R.? or A.? Windels. Typo maybe. Can’t be two 26 year olds with that name in Cross Plains WI.

  27. Pablo says:

    Read my typing, NOTHING WILL HAPPEN TO THIS WOMAN. She will never see the seats in a court room.

    Well, of course she will. She’s been charged, duh. Whether she’ll get a tasty little wrist slap is another question. But if I were a WI Dem, I’d come down on her like a ton of bricks. Anything less is bad PR, and she’s expendable. Really, if she’s dumb enough to do that AND get caught, how useful can she be as anything other than a prop?

  28. SDN says:

    Yeah, the only thing that would make #17 better is by adding “with a swordfish.” to the end.

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